Sweet and Sour Pork

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 shiitake mushrooms
• 7oz. boiled bamboo shoot
• 1 carrot
• 1/2 onion
• 1 green pepper
• 1 pound pork tenderloin
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsps potato starch (or corn starch)
• *Vegetable oil for frying
• For Sauce: 1 cup soup stock
• 3 tbsp soysauce
• 3 tbsps rice wine vinegar
• 4 tbsps sugar
• 1 tbsp ketchup
• 3 tbsps water
• 3 tbsps potato starch (or corn starch)

PREPARATION:

Cut pork into bite-sized cubes and put in a bowl. Pour 1 tbsp soysauce over pork cubes and set aside. Cut onion, bamboo shoot, carrot, green pepper, shiitake mushrooms into bite-sized pieces. Boil carrot for a few minutes until soften. Dust seasoned pork with starch. Heat oil to 350F and deep-fry pork until cooked. Mix soup stock, sugar, ketchup, soysauce, and rice wine vinegar in a bowl. Stir-fry carrot, green pepper, bamboo shoot, shiitake, onion in a large frying pan or a wok. Add fried pork in the pan. Pour mixed seasoning in the pan and bring to a boil. Add mixture of water and starch in the pan and stir quickly. Stop the heat.

Sources: Japanese Food